2007-07-12, 16:30 | Link #141 |
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Honestly I like the plain fluffy white rice better than the beany rice, but bean-rice is significantly healthier. I guess it depends exactly what you want to put in it, but I use slightly less rice and a cupfull of beans mixed with whatever else I want in it. Then I close the rice cooker and cook as normal.
I've never cared too much for soy sauce, but it may be because so many of the side dishes I eat are made with soy sauce and have the flavor already added in. If you go to a good Korean restaurant, they're likely to bring out three or four side dishes (out of the million! ) that were made with soy sauce. Two that come to mind right away are chopped potatoes and fishcake. I *really* got turned off of soy sauce some time ago when I read about some Chinese soy sauce being made with human hair. I don't use Chinese soy sauce, but it creeped me out enough to get me away from all soy sauce altogether. I'm looking forward to trying horsemeat in Oita next year... I've read it's their specialty. |
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Daikon is good. Try stewing beef with them. They're awesome when they're nice, hot, and very soft with that beef taste. There's also this Southern Chinese dimsum dish called "radish cake", for which "cake" is more like "pudding." It's that salty kind of pudding, not a dessert, made of daikon radishes, flour, and Chinese pork sausages. I think at least some of you have had those before. When I was little, my parents made prevailingly adult Chinese dishes that during that time I would not touch with a 3-foot pole. When there's nothing else palatable, I just mix in soy sauce in my standard-issue bowl of white rice, clear it out, and run away. Thus was life. And yes, that was Chinese soy sauce, and I'm still pretty alive. Try the Lee Kum Kei brand...they're from Hong Kong and not the mainland, so they're pretty clean. You have every right to doubt mainland fare (not to mention your usual food myth), but given my current body condition, not all Chinese soy sauce brands suck. |
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2007-07-12, 18:07 | Link #143 |
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Well.. my prior "bean with rice" experience is something called "dirty rice" in east Texas and that state next door. Its a Cajun dish that mixes various spices, beans, and mystery meat bits with rice.
Popeye's Fried Chicken chains serve a faint echo of it (usually too dry and underspiced). Some Mexican ("texmex") diners serve a refried bean/rice mixture (usually long grain nonsticky rice with chili powder+ seasoning).... now I'm really off-topic. But there are food parallels across the globe --
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2007-07-12, 20:58 | Link #144 | |
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I think one of the most important things for me is individuality. I can not think about the "group" as much as supposedly they do. I can not put the group in front of me to the degree they can. |
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2007-07-12, 21:25 | Link #145 | |
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2007-07-12, 21:48 | Link #146 | |
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Each choice has advantages and disadvantages. The extreme end of individuality is that you chuck altruism and charity out the door and its all about "me me me". I think we see the negative results of that mentality all the time here in the US "not my problem" "not my trash" "not in my backyard" "they're all on their own, screw 'em" .... On the other hand, collectivist thinking leads to some pretty cruel behavior against the individual, also wrong. Such thinking also means the social structure misses out on the possible improvements that individualism might create. There's a happy medium: collectivism could learn from individualistic cultures and vice versa --- but we all know that societies have an innate skill in picking up the worst attributes of other societies.
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2007-07-12, 23:05 | Link #148 |
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My two cents...
It's not more right or more wrong than individualism; it's just an alternate way of thinking. Think about when you were put in groups in school... If you assigned a job to everyone in the group, and if everyone did their part, your group would be very successful. No one person would get more credit than anyone else. In the same situation, if there was a kid left out and they decided to do things on their own, it could also be as beneficial... but what if there was something they didn't know how to do? In that case, a group would've been better. We've already established that there are pros and cons to both. I know I probably won't be able to change your mindset that it's just plain wrong, though, as you seem very set in your thinking. |
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2007-07-12, 23:13 | Link #150 | |
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2007-07-12, 23:16 | Link #151 | |
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I know, but that is what i have as a set of tools to judge things. |
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2007-07-12, 23:20 | Link #152 |
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O_O.... Y'know, I was about to post something else until I saw you post this:
And you're right. There's really nothing more to say on it. Of course you believe it's wrong because that's what you were raised with.... You've just inspired me to travel even more, to learn even more different viewpoints and to try understand it all. Thanks. o_o |
2007-07-12, 23:27 | Link #153 | |
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I also heard that for Japanese women dating a foreigner is considered very good, but marrying one is looked down upon or something along that. |
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2007-07-12, 23:28 | Link #154 | ||
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2007-07-12, 23:42 | Link #155 |
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I was raised a "christian methodist" but I'm something quite different now. You're not stuck with the tools you're raised with is my point. You can choose to at least understand other toolsets even if you don't use them or like them
As far as living in Japan... you'll *never* be integrated there, just like you'll never be integrated into Mexican or German society completely. But you *can* reach a pleasant accomodation. In Japan, you'll always be the amazing dancing bear (as a few friends who live there put it). You'll have to be happy hearing "you speak good japanese" or "o my, you can use chopsticks" or "it must be wonderful to live in a country now with four real seasons". Its a lot of fun if you don't let it get on your nerves, particularly if people don't realize you understand what they're saying on the bus As per dating Japanese women (wait a moment as I prepare to insult a huge number of men in Japan) ... they're annoyed that many of the men are still mentally stuck in the 1950s. So dating could be a win for you. Marriage is different because if they choose to marry a non-citizen, well I invite you to read Peter Payne's experiences on the web. He runs j-list.com and has an email blog about living in Japan being married to a Japanese national. Its complicated but can be done. From what he says, he encounters little more problems than my wife and I did as we dated here in the US back in the 1970s. Usually we'd get nasty or astonished looks from visiting Japanese businessmen and occasionally some distant relative in my family might say something really stupid like "I hear they make really good wives" .. .after which my wife would subtly cut them to shreds with her heavy Texas accent. But if you're persistent, good-natured, non-judgemental about different solutions to societal pressures, and persistent (yes, especially persistent) .... one could do reasonably well there.. even become a citizen.
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2007-07-13, 01:19 | Link #158 | ||
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English: "Won't you come with me?" "Yes, I will". Japanese: "Won't you come with me?" "No, I will" [Yes, I will come with you]. Basically, when you ask them a yes/no question with a verb, they either assert or negate the verb, not the whole idea. When they answer "No" to the question "Won't you come with me?", they are actually saying, "no, it's not true that I won't be coming with you". To clarify further, in romaji: Ashita, gakkoni ikimasen ka = [Tomorrow][to school][not go][?] Hai, ikimasen. = [Yes][not go] I hope that was clear enough. Quote:
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2007-07-13, 01:37 | Link #159 |
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aye, I mean, Nyet... oui? errrrr, <screams and jumps in lake>
Like Knight says, in english its the intent that is answered. In Japanese, its the verb being answered wholly. It still catches me offguard occasionally. Its okay.. double negatives ruin my japanese teacher's day in reverse case.
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2007-07-13, 01:46 | Link #160 | |
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"You don't think she's going to come?" "Yes" (Yes, I don't think she's going to come.) But of course, the person took it to mean, "yes, I think she's going to come". Sorry, I saw the post and would've answered the question earlier, but I didn't understand what was being asked... |
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